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  • Statistical machine translation automatically learns how to translate using a training corpus. The learned information can then be used to translate another, “unknown” text, using information that the machine learned from the training operation.
  • a machine translation output may be desirable to certain formats.
  • the most desirable format may be different than the training corpus, or inconsistent within the training corpus.
  • Chinese names may be present in a training corpus with the family name first, followed by the surname.
  • An aspect of the present system is to integrate non-statistical translation components, along with statistical components, to use certain components for certain kinds of translation.
  • An aspect allows training to determine when it is desirable to use different components for different parts of the translation operation.
  • the techniques described herein use a parallel training corpus.
  • the system may automatically learn from the corpuses where entity translation component or components are likely to produce or better translations.
  • This system can automatically learn a confidence factor for different entity translation components in specific contexts. Therefore, this approach can also adapt to unreliable entity translation components.
  • FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the translation system
  • FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of training a classifier that determines when to use different components for different translations
  • FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of operation using multiple translation components.
  • the present system describes integration of non-statistical machine translation components into a statistical machine translation framework. This is done by using a processing device to determine automatically which parts of an input string should use a “baseline” machine translation system, and which parts should use another entity translation component or components, referred to herein as the translation component.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary hardware device which may execute the operation that is described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 and 3 .
  • a processing module 100 receives data from various sources 105 .
  • the sources may be parallel corpora of multiple language information.
  • the sources may include translation memories, dictionaries, glossaries, Internet information, parallel corpora in multiple languages, non-parallel corpora in multiple languages having similar subject matter, and human-created translations.
  • the processor 100 processes this information to produce translation parameters which are output as 110 .
  • the translation parameters are used by language engine 120 in making translations based on input language 130 .
  • the language engine 120 includes a statistical engine 123 , and at least one translation component 124 .
  • the language engine translates from a first language to a second language.
  • the speech engine can be any engine that operates on strings of words, such as a language recognition device, a speech recognition device, a machine paraphraser, natural language generator, modeler, or the like.
  • the processor 100 and speech engine 120 may be any general purpose computer, and can be effected by a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, or any other processing device that is capable of executing the operations described herein.
  • the flowcharts described herein can be instructions which are embodied on a machine-readable medium such as a disc or the like. Alternatively, the flowchart can be executed by dedicated hardware, or by any known or later discovered processing device.
  • the translation component 124 can be any existing translation component of any type, including a rule-based translator, or any other kind of machine translation component. Such translation components may be capable of translating many different kinds of information from one language to another.
  • translation component 124 is used to translate only a portion of the information that it is capable of translating.
  • the translation component may be capable of translating standard two or three character Chinese names. This may apply to many different Chinese size strings. This may include, for example, certain strings which are not actually names.
  • One aspect of the system is to identify the portions with are desired to be translated by the translation component. For example, in the above example, the component must determine how to identify the Chinese names in text, and then to translate those names using the component 124 . Other Chinese language information is translated using the statistical engine 123 .
  • Another aspect detects whether the translation component uses a complete and/or accurate rule set. For example, if the rule set for the translation component 124 for a specific translation is incomplete, then the engine 120 will consider using instead the baseline statistical machine translation part 123 .
  • the goal is to identify Chinese names where the translation component 124 produces a correct translation.
  • the translation component can therefore be used for entities that are not actually person names and can be translated; for example, company names that are constructed like person names.
  • the training of the machine trains not only the statistical machine translation, but also trains when to use the statistical machine translation.
  • the translator is given a source sentence in a source language, for example Chinese, which is to be translated into a target language, for example English.
  • the machine may choose the sentence with the highest probability
  • the posterior probability is modeled using a log linear model.
  • This framework produces a set of M feature functions h m (e,f), m ⁇ 1 . . . M.
  • the direct translation probability is given by:
  • f ) p ⁇ j M ⁇ ( e
  • Another possible feature function is a trigram language model.
  • the feature functions may be trained using the unsmoothed maximum BLEU criterion, described in minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation (Och, 2003).
  • the translation component 124 is a machine translation system or module that can translate specific source language expressions into corresponding target language expressions.
  • the translation component may provide the translation that is “best”, or may alternatively combine a candidate list of translation possibilities.
  • the translation components may include:
  • An ideal translation component provides no wrong translations at all. It provides the set of all correct translations for a given substring.
  • Real world translation components make errors, and provide incorrect translations.
  • the Chinese name entity translation component frequently generates wrong translations when applied to Korean names.
  • Certain expressions cannot be easily translated by the component.
  • the date translator may provide 27 days, or the 27th as potential translations of the same characters. Only one of the two is correct for a specific context. Proper integration of the statistical translator with a translation component, therefore, requires learning/training when to use each of the components, and also training of the proper format to output.
  • FIG. 2 shows a flowchart showing how to learn automatically from a set of translation components in a parallel corpus, and to determine automatically which of the statistical engine 123 , or the translation component 124 , should be used to translate the source language string.
  • a translation component is annotated to list each substring that is capable of being translated by a translation component. Note that there may be one or many different translation components.
  • the annotated corpus indicates which words/portions in the corpus can be translated with any of those translation components. That is done by determining words in the source language, that have a translation, via a translation component, actually occurring in the corresponding target language segment.
  • this may be carried out by applying all the translation components to all the source language substrings of the training corpus.
  • the target language corpus may be used to determine if the training components has produced a correct translation.
  • a variant filter at 210 is used to attempt to prevent different forms of the same word from being rejected.
  • the translation component at 200 may classify a correct translation as being wrong if the parallel training corpus is used as a variant of what the training component has proposed.
  • the variant filter may analyze all or many of the possible translations. For example, all of the following strings: a thousand, one thousand or 1000, refer to the same number. Any of these is the correct translation of the Chinese word for “thousand”.
  • the variant filter may allow any of these translations to be accepted.
  • the annotated corpus is used for classifier training.
  • a probabilistic classifier is trained based on the data.
  • the classifier may be part of the processor 100 .
  • the classifier determines, for each source language sub string, and its source language context, if the translation component has actually produced a correct translation, or not a correct translation.
  • a very large annotated corpus may be automatically generated.
  • parallel corpora For language pairs like Chinese/English and Arabic/English, there may be readily available parallel corpora of more than 100 million words. Human-annotated training corpora are typically much smaller, e.g., they may be rarely less than larger than one million words.
  • the automated annotation may be directly oriented toward the ultimate goal which is to use a certain translation component to produce correct translations.
  • those instances for which the translation component produces a wrong translation may be annotated as negative instances.
  • an annotated corpus can be automatically regenerated at 230 .
  • the model may then be retrained to detect when to use the improved training corpus.
  • re-training can occur when the statistical database 123 is improved, when a new translation component is added, or when some other situation occurs.
  • a model can be trained according to: p(c
  • f j represent substrings of a source language string
  • TC n is a specific translation component
  • c stands for the two situations where “the translation component produces the correct translation” or “the translation component does not produce the correct translation”.
  • a standard maximum entropy model described by Berger 96 may be used that uses each single dependent variable in equation 4 as a feature, is combined with the class c.
  • a maximum entropy classifier may obtain probabilities which can be reasonably compared for different substrings.
  • FIG. 3 shows the overall operation of using the engine.
  • the classifier is trained at 300 , using the flowchart of FIG. 2 .
  • the translation component is integrated into the overall process of the phrase based statistical machine translation system at 310 .
  • Each sub string of the text to be translated is analyzed at 320 .
  • the operation computes the probability that the translation component will produce a correct translation.
  • a filter at 330 uses a threshold p min to filter those cases where the probability of correct translation is too low.
  • the resulting set of named entities is then used as an additional phrase translation candidates. These are hypothesized in search together with the phrases of the baseline statistical machine translation system at 340 .
  • the statistical machine translation system balances between the use of translation component phrases and baseline system phrases. This may be defined by an additional feature function which counts the number of translation component phrases that are used. This may be stored as a variable referred to as TC-PENALTY. Other feature functions, such as a language model, or a reordering model, may also score those phrases.
  • Another aspect may enforce the use of translation component phrases if the corresponding source language sub string is rarely seen.
  • the translation component may also be integrated into the word alignment process between the parallel corpora. This may be done to improve word alignment accuracy during training. This procedure may automatically detect whether the translation component is trained sufficiently to be reliable. Once the translation components is sufficiently reliable, that information can be used to constrain the word alignment generated in the training procedure better alignment between the two languages may be obtained by using the translation components for certain phrases.
  • This training may use different statistical alignment models such as the IBM model 1, the HMM, and/or the IBM model 4.
  • This constraint may also be integrated by constraining the set of considered alignments in the expectation maximization algorithm. This constraint may also improve the alignment quality of the surrounding words. For example, there may be a first order dependence among the alignment positions of the HMM and model for alignment models.
  • results are provided to explain the concepts.
  • the results are based on a Chinese to English translation which was done in 2003.
  • Table 1 provides statistics on the training, development and test corpus that was used. There are four reference translations, from the training corpus (train small, train large, dev and test.)
  • the system uses a subset of 128,000 sentences from the large parallel corpus to generate the translation component works-annotated corpus. Based on this corpus, 264,488 Chinese substrings can be translated using any of the rule based translation component, suggesting altogether approximately 364,000 translations. 60,589 of those translations, or 16.6%, also occur in the corresponding target language; called positive instances.
  • test corpus was annotated in the same way as the training database.
  • the test corpus is perfectly sentence aligned, and therefore there are no wrong negative instances due to alignment.
  • the translation component can translate, and when it does, it suggests 3651 translations of which 1287 (35.3%) also occur in any of the four references.
  • Word alignment that is computed by the statistical alignment models may be used to train the phrase based translation models, on those parts of the text where the automatic corpus annotation detects a translation.
  • the automatic corpus annotation may be a very high precision, and can be used to improve the translation.
  • One aspect therefore, may improve general word alignment quality using the information in the translation component induced word alignment, in the statistical word alignment training.

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A system with a nonstatistical translation component integrated with a statistical translation component engine. The same corpus may be used for training the statistical engine and also for determining when to use the statistical engine and when to use the translation component. This training may use probabilistic techniques. Both the statistical engine and the translation components may be capable of translating the same information, however the system determines which component to use based on the training. Retraining can be carried out to add additional components, or when after additional translator training.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional and claims the priority of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/107,304, entitled “Selection and Use of Nonstatistical Translation Components in a Statistical Machine Translation Framework,” filed on Apr. 15, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,666,725, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/562,774, filed on Apr. 16, 2004, the subject matter of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
The U.S. Government may have certain rights in this invention pursuant to Grant No. N66001-00-1-8914 awarded by DARPA.
BACKGROUND
Statistical machine translation automatically learns how to translate using a training corpus. The learned information can then be used to translate another, “unknown” text, using information that the machine learned from the training operation.
However, current statistical machine translation models are typically not suited for certain types of expressions, e.g., those where statistical substitution is not possible or feasible. For example, the current state of statistical machine translation systems does not allow translating Chinese numbers into English until the numbers have been seen and the correct translation has been learned. Similar issues may exist for translations of names, dates, and other proper nouns.
In addition, it may be desirable to conform a machine translation output to certain formats. The most desirable format may be different than the training corpus, or inconsistent within the training corpus. As an example, Chinese names may be present in a training corpus with the family name first, followed by the surname. However, it is more conventional to print the translation in English with the first name first. This may make it desirable to change the output in order to deviate what was seen in the parallel training data.
Certain modern statistical machine translation systems have integrated a rule based translation component for things like numbers and dates. There have also been attempts to combine statistical translation with other full sentence machine translation systems by performing an independent translation with the different systems and deciding which of the systems provides a better translation.
SUMMARY
An aspect of the present system is to integrate non-statistical translation components, along with statistical components, to use certain components for certain kinds of translation. An aspect allows training to determine when it is desirable to use different components for different parts of the translation operation.
The techniques described herein use a parallel training corpus. The system may automatically learn from the corpuses where entity translation component or components are likely to produce or better translations. This system can automatically learn a confidence factor for different entity translation components in specific contexts. Therefore, this approach can also adapt to unreliable entity translation components.
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These and other aspects will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the translation system;
FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of training a classifier that determines when to use different components for different translations; and
FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of operation using multiple translation components.
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The present system describes integration of non-statistical machine translation components into a statistical machine translation framework. This is done by using a processing device to determine automatically which parts of an input string should use a “baseline” machine translation system, and which parts should use another entity translation component or components, referred to herein as the translation component.
FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary hardware device which may execute the operation that is described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 and 3. For the application of language translation, a processing module 100 receives data from various sources 105. The sources may be parallel corpora of multiple language information. Specifically, the sources may include translation memories, dictionaries, glossaries, Internet information, parallel corpora in multiple languages, non-parallel corpora in multiple languages having similar subject matter, and human-created translations. The processor 100 processes this information to produce translation parameters which are output as 110. The translation parameters are used by language engine 120 in making translations based on input language 130. In the disclosed embodiment, the language engine 120 includes a statistical engine 123, and at least one translation component 124. The language engine translates from a first language to a second language. However, alternatively, the speech engine can be any engine that operates on strings of words, such as a language recognition device, a speech recognition device, a machine paraphraser, natural language generator, modeler, or the like.
The processor 100 and speech engine 120 may be any general purpose computer, and can be effected by a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, or any other processing device that is capable of executing the operations described herein.
The flowcharts described herein can be instructions which are embodied on a machine-readable medium such as a disc or the like. Alternatively, the flowchart can be executed by dedicated hardware, or by any known or later discovered processing device.
The translation component 124 can be any existing translation component of any type, including a rule-based translator, or any other kind of machine translation component. Such translation components may be capable of translating many different kinds of information from one language to another.
In the embodiment, translation component 124 is used to translate only a portion of the information that it is capable of translating. For example, the translation component may be capable of translating standard two or three character Chinese names. This may apply to many different Chinese size strings. This may include, for example, certain strings which are not actually names. One aspect of the system is to identify the portions with are desired to be translated by the translation component. For example, in the above example, the component must determine how to identify the Chinese names in text, and then to translate those names using the component 124. Other Chinese language information is translated using the statistical engine 123.
Another aspect detects whether the translation component uses a complete and/or accurate rule set. For example, if the rule set for the translation component 124 for a specific translation is incomplete, then the engine 120 will consider using instead the baseline statistical machine translation part 123.
Using the above example, therefore, the goal is to identify Chinese names where the translation component 124 produces a correct translation. The translation component can therefore be used for entities that are not actually person names and can be translated; for example, company names that are constructed like person names.
Therefore, the training of the machine trains not only the statistical machine translation, but also trains when to use the statistical machine translation. The translator is given a source sentence in a source language, for example Chinese, which is to be translated into a target language, for example English. Among all possible target sentences, the machine may choose the sentence with the highest probability
e ^ = arg max e { Pr ( e | f ) } ( 1 )
Where the symbol Pr(.) represents general probability distributions with no, or virtually no, assumptions, argmax, denotes the search for the output sentence in the target language, and e is the sentence.
The posterior probability is modeled using a log linear model. This framework produces a set of M feature functions hm(e,f), m−1 . . . M.
Each feature function M also has a model parameter λm, where m=1 . . . M.
The direct translation probability is given by:
Pr ( e | f ) = p λ j M ( e | f ) = exp [ m = 1 M λ m h m ( e , f ) ] e exp [ m = 1 M λ m h m ( e , f ) ] ( 2 ) ( 3 )
information may be translated by developing feature functions that capture the relevant properties of the translation task. These basic feature functions may include the alignment template approach described in “Discriminative Training And Maximum Entropy Models For Statistical Machine Translation”, Och and Ney 2002, proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Association for computational linguistics. This translation model segments the input sentence into phrases, translates these phrases, and reorders the translations into the target language.
Another possible feature function is a trigram language model. The feature functions may be trained using the unsmoothed maximum BLEU criterion, described in minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation (Och, 2003).
Training procedures for obtaining alignment templates is described in (Och 1999). Computation of word alignment in the parallel training corpus may use an expectation maximization technique, and a statistical alignment technique. See for example (Och and Ney 2003). This word alignment forms the basis for computing the probabilistic phrase to phrase translation lexicon p(e|f), which is used to store the translation of the phrase.
The translation component 124 is a machine translation system or module that can translate specific source language expressions into corresponding target language expressions. The translation component may provide the translation that is “best”, or may alternatively combine a candidate list of translation possibilities.
Different environments may use different translations. For example, the translation components may include:
    • a Chinese name translation—this translation component is a simple rule-based translation component that operates for two and three character Chinese names. This is done by applying the Pinyin rules to Chinese characters that frequently occur as parts of names, to identify and translate those Chinese names.
    • Number translation—this translation component performs a rule-based translation of Chinese numbers, percentages, and time expressions. It operates by determining such numbers percentages and time expressions, and translating them using rules.
    • Date translation—this translation component translates the expressions. One example is Nov. 2, 1971. The translation component will automatically translate this to the proper language.
An important issue is integration of these components with the statistical translator and training of when to use which one.
An ideal translation component provides no wrong translations at all. It provides the set of all correct translations for a given substring. Real world translation components make errors, and provide incorrect translations. For example, the Chinese name entity translation component frequently generates wrong translations when applied to Korean names. Certain expressions cannot be easily translated by the component. For example the date translator may provide 27 days, or the 27th as potential translations of the same characters. Only one of the two is correct for a specific context. Proper integration of the statistical translator with a translation component, therefore, requires learning/training when to use each of the components, and also training of the proper format to output.
FIG. 2 shows a flowchart showing how to learn automatically from a set of translation components in a parallel corpus, and to determine automatically which of the statistical engine 123, or the translation component 124, should be used to translate the source language string.
At 200, a translation component is annotated to list each substring that is capable of being translated by a translation component. Note that there may be one or many different translation components. The annotated corpus indicates which words/portions in the corpus can be translated with any of those translation components. That is done by determining words in the source language, that have a translation, via a translation component, actually occurring in the corresponding target language segment.
In an implementation, this may be carried out by applying all the translation components to all the source language substrings of the training corpus. The target language corpus may be used to determine if the training components has produced a correct translation.
A variant filter at 210 is used to attempt to prevent different forms of the same word from being rejected. The translation component at 200 may classify a correct translation as being wrong if the parallel training corpus is used as a variant of what the training component has proposed. The variant filter may analyze all or many of the possible translations. For example, all of the following strings: a thousand, one thousand or 1000, refer to the same number. Any of these is the correct translation of the Chinese word for “thousand”. The variant filter may allow any of these translations to be accepted.
It may be desirable to provide enough precision in the translation component to avoid negative instances as being misclassified as positive instances.
At 220, the annotated corpus is used for classifier training. A probabilistic classifier is trained based on the data. The classifier may be part of the processor 100. The classifier determines, for each source language sub string, and its source language context, if the translation component has actually produced a correct translation, or not a correct translation.
In operation, given a large parallel training corpus, a very large annotated corpus may be automatically generated. For language pairs like Chinese/English and Arabic/English, there may be readily available parallel corpora of more than 100 million words. Human-annotated training corpora are typically much smaller, e.g., they may be rarely less than larger than one million words.
Another aspect is that the automated annotation may be directly oriented toward the ultimate goal which is to use a certain translation component to produce correct translations. As a result, those instances for which the translation component produces a wrong translation may be annotated as negative instances.
When the translation component 124 is improved via increased coverage or improved quality of translation, an annotated corpus can be automatically regenerated at 230. The model may then be retrained to detect when to use the improved training corpus. Similarly, re-training can occur when the statistical database 123 is improved, when a new translation component is added, or when some other situation occurs.
This allows integration of different training components that each translate the same kind of instructions. The system learns automatically in this way when to trust which translation component. This allows automatic determination of which are acceptable and not acceptable translation components for particular words in particular contexts.
Mathematically speaking, to determine if the certain source language substrate of a source language string can be translated with the correct translation component to produce the translation, a model can be trained according to:
p(c|fj 1 j 2 ,fj 1 −2 j 1 −1,fj 2 +1 j 2 +2,TCn,e1 1)  (4)
Where fj represent substrings of a source language string; TCn is a specific translation component, and c stands for the two situations where “the translation component produces the correct translation” or “the translation component does not produce the correct translation”. A standard maximum entropy model described by Berger 96 may be used that uses each single dependent variable in equation 4 as a feature, is combined with the class c.
Different classifier models may be used for this framework, besides the maximum entropy classifier. A maximum entropy classifier may obtain probabilities which can be reasonably compared for different substrings.
FIG. 3 shows the overall operation of using the engine. The classifier is trained at 300, using the flowchart of FIG. 2. Once the classifier is trained in this way, the translation component is integrated into the overall process of the phrase based statistical machine translation system at 310. Each sub string of the text to be translated is analyzed at 320. The operation computes the probability that the translation component will produce a correct translation. A filter at 330 uses a threshold pmin to filter those cases where the probability of correct translation is too low. The resulting set of named entities is then used as an additional phrase translation candidates. These are hypothesized in search together with the phrases of the baseline statistical machine translation system at 340.
The statistical machine translation system balances between the use of translation component phrases and baseline system phrases. This may be defined by an additional feature function which counts the number of translation component phrases that are used. This may be stored as a variable referred to as TC-PENALTY. Other feature functions, such as a language model, or a reordering model, may also score those phrases.
Another aspect may enforce the use of translation component phrases if the corresponding source language sub string is rarely seen.
The translation component may also be integrated into the word alignment process between the parallel corpora. This may be done to improve word alignment accuracy during training. This procedure may automatically detect whether the translation component is trained sufficiently to be reliable. Once the translation components is sufficiently reliable, that information can be used to constrain the word alignment generated in the training procedure better alignment between the two languages may be obtained by using the translation components for certain phrases.
This training may use different statistical alignment models such as the IBM model 1, the HMM, and/or the IBM model 4. This constraint may also be integrated by constraining the set of considered alignments in the expectation maximization algorithm. This constraint may also improve the alignment quality of the surrounding words. For example, there may be a first order dependence among the alignment positions of the HMM and model for alignment models.
Some exemplary results are provided to explain the concepts. The results are based on a Chinese to English translation which was done in 2003. Table 1 provides statistics on the training, development and test corpus that was used. There are four reference translations, from the training corpus (train small, train large, dev and test.)
TABLE 1
Characteristics of training corpus (Train),
development corpus (Dev), test corpus (Test).
Chinese English
Train Segments 5 109
(small) Words 89 121 111 251
Train Segments  6.9M
(large) Words 170 M 157M
Dev Segments 935
Words 27 012 27.6 K-30.1 K
Test Segments 878
Words 24 540 25.3 K-28.6 K
The system uses a subset of 128,000 sentences from the large parallel corpus to generate the translation component works-annotated corpus. Based on this corpus, 264,488 Chinese substrings can be translated using any of the rule based translation component, suggesting altogether approximately 364,000 translations. 60,589 of those translations, or 16.6%, also occur in the corresponding target language; called positive instances.
A review of these annotations shows that positive instances of the automatic corpus annotation are rarely incorrectly annotated, on the other hand, negative instances are much more frequent due to the existence of sentence alignment errors, and insufficient recall of the translation component.
For evaluation purposes, the test corpus was annotated in the same way as the training database. The test corpus is perfectly sentence aligned, and therefore there are no wrong negative instances due to alignment. In the test corpus, there are 2529 substrings that the translation component can translate, and when it does, it suggests 3651 translations of which 1287 (35.3%) also occur in any of the four references.
Using that annotated training corpus, the maximum entropy classifier described above is trained. Table 2 provides the results of this classifier for the development Corp. this for various training corpus sizes. This experiment uses Pmin=0.2.
TABLE 2
Quality of classifier trained on the automatically annotated corpus
Strict Loose
# Segments Errors[%] Precision [%] Recall[%] Precision[%]
1,000 18 79 65 88
2,000 17 85 63 90
4,000 16 86 67 91
8,000 14 88 70 92
16,000 13 89 71 94
32,000 11 92 75 95
64,000 9 94 78 97
128,000 8 95 80 97
(Errors[%]: error rate of classifier (percentage of suggested translations that are correct),
(Strict) Precision[%]/Recall[%]: precision and recall of classifier,
Loose Precision[%]: percentage of source language sub-strings where any of the suggested translations is correct).
In operation, a precision as high as 95% was eventually obtained with the recall of the person. See table 2 which shows the actual values. The column entitled “loose precision” provides a percentage of source language substrings where any of the suggested translations also occur in the references. Eventually the precision of 97% was achieved. This means that about 3% of the Chinese substrings for which a translation were not correct.
Word alignment that is computed by the statistical alignment models may be used to train the phrase based translation models, on those parts of the text where the automatic corpus annotation detects a translation. The automatic corpus annotation may be a very high precision, and can be used to improve the translation. One aspect, therefore, may improve general word alignment quality using the information in the translation component induced word alignment, in the statistical word alignment training.
Although only a few embodiments have been disclosed in detail above, other modifications are possible, and this disclosure is intended to cover all such modifications, and most particularly, any modification which might be predictable to a person having ordinary skill in the art. For example, the above has described integration of rule based translation components. It should be noted that other components, such as statistical components and the like may select alternative translations that can be used. The probability assigned by the model can be an additional feature for the classifier.
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What is claimed is:
1. A method comprising:
executing instructions stored in memory via a processor of a language engine for:
training the language engine to train for statistical machine translation;
training the language engine when to use statistical machine translation by applying a machine learning method to a bilingual text that has been annotated with the output of a non-statistical translation component along with information identifying the type of the translation component;
translating information from a first language to a second language using at least two translation components, wherein at least one translation component is a non-statistical translation component, each of the at least two translation components capable of translating equivalent phrases, each of the at least two translation components being selected based upon evaluation of an annotated training corpus, the annotated training corpus comprising substrings in the first language that have been annotated to associate the substrings with one or more translation components that are to be utilized to translate the substrings; and
automatically selecting a preferred component from the at least two translation components, the preferred component providing a translation having a highest probability of being correct.
2. A method as in claim 1, further comprising defining a feature function that indicates when to use the at least two translation components.
3. A method as in claim 1, wherein automatically selecting the preferred component comprises:
obtaining a phrase to be translated; and
computing a probability of being correct in translating the phrase for each of the at least two translation components.
4. A method as in claim 3, further comprising:
detecting variants of a translation of the phrase; and
accepting the translation of the phrase as being proper if the translation of the phrase is equivalent to one of the variants.
5. A method as in claim 4, further comprising annotating a training corpus based on the variants to form an annotated training corpus.
6. A method as in claim 1, wherein a first component of the at least two translation components comprises a statistical translator and a second component of the at least two translation components comprises a nonstatistical translator for proper nouns.
7. A method as in claim 1, wherein a first component of the at least two translation components comprises a statistical translator and a second component of the at least two translation components comprises a nonstatistical translator for names.
8. A method as in claim 1, wherein a first component of the at least two translation components comprises a statistical translator and a second component of the at least two translation components comprises a nonstatistical translator for numbers.
9. A method as in claim 1, further comprising automatically re-selecting a second preferred component from the at least two translation components in response to an occurrence.
10. A method as in claim 9, wherein the occurrence comprises adding an additional nonstatistical translation component to the at least two translation components.
11. A method as in claim 9, wherein the occurrence comprises improving at least one of the at least two translation components.
12. A method as in claim 1, further comprising:
training a format of an output of a machine translation system based on a training corpus; and
allowing at least one of a plurality of different formats to be selected from within the training corpus.
13. A system comprising:
a memory for storing executable instructions;
a processor for executing the instructions for training a language engine to train for statistical machine translation and training the language engine when to use statistical machine translation by applying a machine learning method to a bilingual text that has been annotated with the output of a non-statistical translation component along with information identifying the type of the translation component;
at least two translating parts stored in memory and executable by the processor, wherein at least one translating part is a non-statistical translation part, each of the at least two translating parts operational to translate information from a first language to a second language and each of the at least two translating parts capable of translating equivalent phrases, each of the at least two translating parts being selected based upon evaluation of an annotated training corpus, the annotated training corpus comprising substrings in the first language that have been annotated to associate the substrings with one or more translating parts that are to be utilized to translate the substrings; and
a classifier part stored in memory and executable by the processor to automatically select a preferred component from the at least two translating parts, the preferred component providing a translation having a highest probability of being correct.
14. A system as in claim 13, further comprising a training corpus.
15. A system as in claim 14, further comprising an output module that formats an output based on the training corpus.
16. A system as in claim 13, further comprising a variant detector that detects variants of a translated phrase and accepts the translated phrase as being proper if the translation phrase is one of the variants.
17. A system as in claim 16, further comprising an annotated training corpus based, at least in part, on the variants.
18. A system as in claim 13, wherein a first part of the at least two translating parts comprises a statistical translator component and a second part of the at least two translating parts comprises a nonstatistical translator component for proper nouns.
19. A system as in claim 13, wherein a first part of the at least two translating parts comprises a statistical translator component and a second part of the at least two translating parts comprises a nonstatistical translator component for names.
20. A system as in claim 13, wherein a first part of the at least two translating parts comprises a statistical translator component and a second part of the at least two translating parts comprises a nonstatistical translator component for numbers.
21. A system as in claim 13, further comprising a feature part that indicates when to use the at least two translation components.
22. A system as in claim 13, wherein the classifier part comprises a probabilistic classifier.
23. A system as in claim 13, further comprising at least one additional translating part.
24. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program executable by a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
training a language engine to train for statistical machine translation; training the language engine when to use statistical machine translation by applying a machine learning method to a bilingual text that has been annotated with the output of a non-statistical translation component along with information identifying the type of the translation component;
translating information from a first language to a second language using at least two translation components, wherein at least one translation component is a non-statistical translation component, each of the at least two translation components capable of translating equivalent phrases, each of the at least two translation components being selected based upon evaluation of an annotated training corpus, the annotated training corpus comprising substrings in the first language that have been annotated to associate the substrings with one or more translation components that are to be utilized to translate the substrings; and
automatically selecting a preferred component from the at least two translation components, the preferred component providing a translation having a highest probability of being correct.
25. The method as in claim 1, further comprising utilizing a statistical machine translator if the at least two translation components are using a rule set that is inaccurate.
26. The method as in claim 1, further comprising generating an annotated training corpus by:
applying a plurality of translation components to substrings in a first language to translate the substrings into a second language; and
annotating strings in a first language for each translation component that accurately translates the substring into a second language.
27. The method as in claim 26, further comprising evaluating context of a translation of a substring by evaluating the translated substring relative to a string from which the substring was obtained.
28. The method as in claim 27, further comprising determining an accurate translation by ensuring that the translation is both correctly translated and contextually correct.
29. The method as in claim 26, further comprising automatically regenerating the annotated training corpus when a quality of translations generated by at least one of the two translation components has increased.
30. The method as in claim 1, selecting the at least two translation components by applying a maximum entropy model to each substring that is to be translated by the at least two translation components.
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